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SUMMARY:George Dyson (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nThe hacker historian and author behind 2012’s Turing’s Cathedral returns to Kepler’s for the release of Analogia\, a boldly philosophical book which explores the arc of technology from the stone ages to the predicted point of singularity. How has technology shaped humanity through time\, and what lays in store when we develop technologies beyond our programmable control? \nDyson offers a rich historical glance that sweeps centuries\, peppered with autobiographical elements including Freeman Dyson’s work on TRIGA (the safe nuclear reactor used around the word to create medical isotopes)\, and his own 1972 stint squatting on land in British Columbia in a tree house of his own design to get some distance from that very legacy. Dyson even delves into his noted love of kayak design. The resulting book is a treasure of philosophy\, science\, history\, biography\, and the ways we as human beings shift with emerging scientific breakthroughs. He pays especial attention to the development of complex networks and artificial intelligence. \nAfter a sweeping four-part review of technology to date\, Dyson projects into the future to suggest that perhaps machines and nature could join forces against… us. Don’t miss the author in person as he shares his expertise\, exquisite logic and peerless prose. RSVP now to reserve your space in the webinar\, and our emerging technological future. \n**Please consider joining with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations. Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Refresh The Page
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SUMMARY:Martin Jay in conversation with Paul Breines
DESCRIPTION:discussing Martin Jay’s new book \nSplinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations \npublished by Verso Press \nThe evening will begin with a short introduction by Robert Kaufman \nAssessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century. \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n(REGISTER HERE) link to be posted soon! \n————– \n(Purchase Book Here) link to be posted soon! \n————– \nAlthough successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances\, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture\, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected ways\, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer\, Adorno\, Benjamin\, Marcuse\, Löwenthal\, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument\, they range over a wide variety of topics\, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis\, from Benjamin’s ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man\, from Löwenthal’s role in Weimar’s Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer’s involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art\, the Jewish prohibition on images\, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere\, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness\,” which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics. \nMartin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he taught Modern European Intellectual History and Critical Theory for forty-five years. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination; Marxism and Totality; Adorno; Permanent Exiles; Fin-de-siècle Socialism; Force Fields; Downcast Eyes; Cultural Semantics; Refractions of Violence; Songs of Experience; The Virtues of Mendacity; Essays from the Edge; Kracauer: l’exilé; and Reason after Its Eclipse. He has been a regular columnist for Salmagundi since 1987. \nPaul Breines was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison\, Wisconsin and a member of the Student Council on Civil Rights when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. As part of the Freedom Ride Breines\, along with three other students\, traveled from Nashville\, Tennessee to Jackson\, Mississippi via a Greyhound bus where all four participants were arrested in the Greyhound terminal in Jackson\, Mississippi on 21 July 1961. Paul Breines is also Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Boston College. He is the author of TOUGH JEWS: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry\, and co-author of The Young Lukaacs and the Origins of Western Marxism. \nRobert Kaufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, where he also teaches in\, and is former co-director of\, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. His teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas\, the Frankfurt School being one in particular. Kaufman is the author of Negatvive Romaticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats\, Shelley\, and Modern Poetry (forthcoming from Cornell University Press)\, and is at work on two related studies: Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry.
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SUMMARY:THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 25\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN by Hendrik Groen. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82208141566. \nYou can order a copy in hardcover at https://bit.ly/ggpSecretDiary\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at https://bit.ly/SecretDiaryAB. \n\nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nJust because you’re old doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and adventure. Hendrik is a rebel\, determined to live life to the fullest. \n— Mike \n  \nDescription\n\nA #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship\, love\, and an old man who is young at heart.\nTechnically speaking\, Hendrik Groen is….elderly. But at age 83 1/4\, this feisty\, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums\, exasperated by the indignities of aging\, Hendrik has decided to rebel – on his own terms. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home\, where he refuses to take himself\, or his fellow “inmates\,” too seriously. \n  \nWith an eccentric group of friends\, he founds the wickedly anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club\, and he and his best friend\, Evert\, gleefully stir up trouble\, enraging the home’s humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door\, he polishes his shoes\, grooms what’s left of his hair\, and determines to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left\, with hilarious and tender consequences. \n  \nA bestselling phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world\, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is inspiring\, charming\, and laugh-out-loud funny with a deep and poignant core: a page-turning delight for readers of any age. \nAbout the Author\n\nHendrik Groen started his diary on the literary website of Torpedo Magazine. He says about his novel: “There’s not one sentence that’s a lie\, but not every word is true.” The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen has been translated into over twenty languages. \nPraise For…\n\n“Amusing [and] wickedly accurate…Reading The Secret Diary\, I was constantly put in mind of Ken Kesey’s madhouse tale One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest\, another comi-tragedy concerning the tyranny of institutions of the unwanted. Enjoy Groen’s light touch but do not be fooled by it….The Secret Diary is a handbook of resistance for our time.”—The Express (UK) \n“Funny and frank – a story with a great deal of heart.”—Graeme Simsion\, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n“A story about how friendship\, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I’m an old man\, I want to be Hendrik Groen.”—John Boyne\, internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas \n“An incredible picture of friendship… something we could all stand to emulate\, no matter where we are in our lives.”—Bookpage\, Top Fiction Pick for July \n“Interspersed with Groen’s biting wit and comic take on aging and all it entails… A page-turning delight for adult readers of any age and locale.”—Booklist\, starred review \n“Poignant and true-to-life\, an international bestseller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune \n“Engaging and hilarious\, Hendrik’s diary gives a dignity and respect to the elderly often overlooked in popular culture\, providing readers a look into the importance of friendship and the realities of the senior care system in modern society.”—Publisher’s Weekly \n“You might say he’s the Elena Ferrante of the octogenarian set – though whether or not he is actually an octogenarian (or a man) is also anyone’s guess. It’s an appealing novel with a lot of heart\, reminding readers young and old that fun is to be found even in the routine of everyday life. And of course\, the possibility that it’s more memoir than fiction is delightful.”—New York Post
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
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